[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/9] multipath-tools: avoid I/O during uevent processing
Martin Wilck
mwilck at suse.com
Fri Mar 15 16:11:46 UTC 2019
Hi Christophe, hi Ben,
the bulk of this series attempts to avoid unnecessary I/O for "multipath -u"
calls from udev rules. I came up with it in a recent attempt to debug
avoid "multipath -u" hangups during boot. I found that the detect_alua()
call in the get_refwwid->pathinfo->scsi_ioctl_pathinfo call sequence would
cause an sg ioctl to be sent for every "multipath -u" invocation. That's
obvious nonsense, we don't need to detect ALUA capabilities to find out
if a device is a potential multipath member.
So, rather than setting pp->tpgs in pathinfo, I resorted to a "lazy"
approach where ALUA capabilities are probed when they are needed, no
sooner. I also cleaned up the ALUA code a bit (still some more to go),
and made it attempt to read INQUIRY data from sysfs (this is fine for
the ALUA prioritizer - it only needs to bypass sysfs for the RTPG calls).
Martin Wilck (9):
libmultipath: add sysfs_get_inquiry()
libmultipath: alua: make API more consistent
libmultipath: alua: try to retrieve inquiry data from sysfs
libmultipath: constify sysfs_get_timeout()
libmultipath: detect_alua(): use system timeout
libmultipath: lazy tpgs probing
libmultipath: don't link alua_rtpg.o twice
libmultipath: check_rdac(): pre-check in hwtable
libmultipath: hwtable: add Lenovo DE series
libmultipath/discovery.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++--------
libmultipath/discovery.h | 10 +++---
libmultipath/hwtable.c | 20 ++++++++++++
libmultipath/prioritizers/Makefile | 3 --
libmultipath/prioritizers/alua.c | 4 +--
libmultipath/prioritizers/alua_rtpg.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++------
libmultipath/prioritizers/alua_rtpg.h | 7 ++--
libmultipath/propsel.c | 31 ++++++++++++------
multipathd/main.c | 7 ++--
9 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
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2.21.0
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